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The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Lady Windermere's Fan / An Ideal Husband) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold ...Show more
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head of the family is the prince, Don Fabrizio. Proud and stubborn, he is accustomed to k ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I did not believe in ghosts?Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow?s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, th ...Show more
The Woman in Black - Vintage Classics by Susan Hill
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the scariest and most ingenious novels ever written.Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is n ...Show more
Three Cheers For The Paraclete by Tom Keneally
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St Peter's. Time and again his efforts to do the right thing for his fellow men lead him into co ...Show more